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FreeRealTime.com Reports First Place Rating
According to Nielsen//NetRatings
January 2000 Home Audience Measurement Service Ranks FreeRealTime.com at Top of Finance
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IRVINE, Calif., March 10 /PRNewswire/ -- FreeRealTime.com, Inc., (OTC Bulletin Board: FRTI - news), digital media
company and leading provider of real-time stock market information and online financial services, announced today that it
topped the Nielsen//NetRatings Home Panel rankings for all Finance sites measured by the service in the month of January
2000. FreeRealTime.com was ranked number 1 in ``stickiness' with an average time spent on the site of 2 hours and 44
minutes per person, an increase of 27% over the 2 hours and 9 minutes reported in December 1999. FreeRealTime.com also
maintained the number 1 ranking in visits per person and page views per person.
When compared to the entire universe of sites ranked by Nielsen//NetRatings Home Panel, FreeRealTime.com ranked second
in time spent per person, ahead of 4th ranked eBay and 16th ranked Yahoo!; fourth in visits per person, ahead of 12th ranked
MSN; and fifth among all web properties tracked by Nielsen in pages per person, ahead of 19th ranked E*Trade.
``These results reaffirm FreeRealTime.com as a premiere destination for the active investor. We are extremely excited to have
achieved such favorable ratings', said Brad Gunn, President and Co-CEO of FreeRealTime.com. ``Remarkable ratings by a
respected organization further validate the tremendous loyalty of our valued member base.'
The Nielsen//NetRatings Internet Audience Measurement Service combines 50 years of best practices and methods in
audience research from Nielsen Media Research and the most advanced Internet measurement technology from NetRatings.
NetRatings patent pending Internet measurement technology tracks the entire spectrum of Internet user behavior in three critical
areas: site activity, advertising activity, and user profiles. |
